3 Reasons to End Obamacare Before it Begins!

As the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - a.k.a. Obamacare - goes before the highest court in the land, here are three reasons to chuck the whole program even before it gets underway.

1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. The Supreme Court will issue its verdict later this spring of course, but there's no question that if the government can force you to do something simply because you exist and draw breath, then the American experiment in limited government is over and done with. Whether it's the mandating of eating broccoli or buying insurance, a government that can make you do whatever it wants just ain't in the American grain.

2. Its Price Tag is Already Ballooning. The latest government estimate of cost tells us what we already knew. Health-care reform is going to cost us a lot more than the arm and the leg it's supposed to save us. The Congressional Budget Office is now saying that the first full decade of Obamacare is going to cost about $1.8 trillion , or double the original estimate used to sell the program.

3. Obamacare Won't Make Us Healthier. Health insurance isn't the same thing as health. Most of us might end up paying more for health care under the new law, but there's precious little evidence that coverage itself leads to lower medical costs. A 1993 study by the RAND Corporation found that "for the average person, there were no substantial benefits from free care ." Not smoking, eating moderately, and not boozing it up provide greater health benefits than any low-deductible, low-co-pay insurance plan.

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[steinem27]

that little clause in the health insurance mandate, which states that it can only be enacted provided there can be no "punitive enforcement" of the mandate, no jail, nothing, just garnishing of your tax return..enjoy that while it lasts, because all any administration has to do is argue the resulting debt from unpaid fines "billions", and the feds will have just cause under the "commerce clause" to remove that little stipulation, and jail people..it's just a matter of time..

[Olajide Olusegun]

I felt my IQ dropping just watching this.

[Br Gi]

This is all a shell game. Government cannot micromanage peoples' finances. Government couldn't care less if you are up to your ears in debt or if you are debt free. All people of a certain income will pay the same for health care. Governments ALWAYS treat all wage earners as if the government was the sole debtor. So rather than decrease bankruptcies, they increase-just that people bankrupt away credit cards, personal loans and expenses rather than health care costs.

[Emil Episkoposyan]

You are no more paying for private health insurance than Gov. Health insurance; In both cases, the service being "offered" to you was paid for by a large pool of money that you contributed into.

You draw a dichotomy between the services of the Gov. and large corporations when, for all intents and purposes, the Gov. provides services in the same way as any ultra-large corporation would; the only real difference is that, unlike mega corporations, the Government forces us to be its customers

[types10000]

"Your current state argument falls apart unless you concede that ALL large corporations are free."

- incorrect, i've already addressed this: in the case of corporations you are paying for a service, in the case of healthcare YOU ARE NOT paying for a service; you pay taxes and a service is offered to you.

Try again.

[Emil Episkoposyan]

Your current state argument falls apart unless you concede that ALL large corporations are free.

You never pay for anything "explicitly" when dealing with a big company, it always goes out of a big pool that may or may cover the exact service you paid for.

In your analogy, the "free" car wouldn't be free even if it wasn't the car you worked on because that company would be rewarding you for your labor and contributions, which have an inherent cost

[Emil Episkoposyan]

nice ad hominems, by the way; they really add to your argument